2/23/2012: I’ve had requests for Michael Raymer’s slides from the union forum. He sent them along, 4 pages, here, with this explanation: My Conclusions from the Data: There is an undeniable inverse correlation between tenure-track faculty (TTF) unionization and average school quality. (Presence of union correlates to lower ranking.) Of…
UO Matters
2/23/2012: That’s the title of the lead post by UO physics professor Stephen Hsu, in a NYT sponsored discussion of racial preferences in college admissions, prompted by the SCOTUS decision to revisit their constitutionality.
2/23/2012: according to the Oregonian. Two weeks ago they were very optimistic. The bill would mean Oregon would have a Chief Education Officer with authority over Pernsteiner and it would give the governor authority to fire control Pernsteiner. Pernsteiner fired Lariviere, and now he seems to be stopping Kitzhaber. Legislative…
2/22/2012: That’s the line I’ve been getting from UO administrators lately: UO Matters is a primary reason that there is so little trust between the faculty and the administration. If you have any thoughts on this, pro or con, please comment.
Update: ODE editorial here.OC post here. 2/22/2012: ODE story here. I like that quip about how much money Randy Geller is already making the students pay for Chip Kelly’s lawyer. Secret video of negotiations here.
2/21/2012: I caught the last half. The panel was well balanced pro and con. Maybe 100 faculty in the audience, notably pro. That’s all I’ve got to say. If you have more, the comments are open.
2/21/2012: Not what was expected: Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that two highly respected University of Oregon faculty members have been selected to oversee the institution’s extensive academic affairs portfolio. Doug Blandy has been appointed senior vice provost for academic affairs, and Barbara Altman will serve as vice…
2/20/2012: But it ain’t never gonna happen. Sam Stites has the story in the ODE.
2/20/2012: There’s a lot of misinformation about student-faculty ratios floating around. If you look at the number of students per tenure track faculty, you get this: All the data from UO institutional research. It’s ugly, so Jim Bean has been counting NTTFs, which makes us look much prettier. I’ve got…
2/20/2012: The figure and email below are from an anonymous correspondent. At UO there is a tiny correlation between a department’s average pay relative to their discipline and their research productivity relative to their discipline. You’d expect better ranking departments would be closer to AAU comparator pay. Nope, mostly it’s…
CAMPUS FORUM: OPEN DIALOGUE ON FACULTY UNIONIZATION Hosted by the University Senate (see senate.uoregon.edu/ for additional information)TUESDAY, FEB. 21, 20124 to 6 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom All members of the statutory faculty, which includes all tenure-track faculty (TTF) and non tenure-track faculty (NTTF), are strongly urged to attend this…
2/20/2011: UO news here. UO law here. Daily Emerald story here. From the Law School facebook: Memorial Tribute to Honor Professor Svitlana Kravchenko Please join us to honor the late Professor Svitlana Kravchenko of the University of Oregon School of Law on Friday, February 24. Svitlana’s husband, Professor John Bonine…
2/19/2012: I tend to focus on what Pat Kilkenny’s weird baseball obsession is costing UO in dollars. Kilkenny got the UO Foundation to loan athletics millions to build “PK Park” on a 6.25% ten year balloon loan, pledging future media revenues as collateral. But as Richard Sundt notes, the corruption…
2/19/2012: Columnist David Sarasohn: In the middle of the 1990s, when Oregon K-12 funding was a question of whether programs would be thrown overboard right away or the following year, Portland school superintendent Jack Bierwirth was asked why he had ever decided to come here. He explained that he’d been…
2/17/2012: I wish that UO’s CFO would give the faculty a honest talk about UO’s current spending and that our Provost would give a consult with the faculty about UO’s future budgeting priorities. But Jim Bean and Frances Dyke have never given us a clear data-based presentation of where they…